Lauri J. Dawson, 56, was charged with theft by unauthorized taking. She was arrested in January after a 10-month police investigation into the theft from Macleod Furniture in Belfast, where she worked as a bookkeeper. In an affidavit filed in Belfast District Court, police said that the alleged theft came to light after her brother, an owner of the company, learned they were having problems paying state and federal taxes.

A forensic audit on Macleod Furniture showed that Dawson had written additional payroll checks to herself from 2009 through 2012, according to the affidavit. In 2009, she paid herself 79 weekly payroll checks, 63 in 2010, 66 in 2011, and eight in the first five weeks of 2012, according to the affidavit.

While investigating the alleged theft, police learned that Dawson and her husband, William Dawson, both were in serious financial trouble, with multiple liens placed on their properties by the Internal Revenue Service.

Last fall, the Waldo County Probate Court acted to remove two elderly women from the control of William Dawson, an attorney who obtained a license to practice law in Maine in 1989. Both women had granted Dawson power of attorney, and court documents showed that he paid himself more than $300,000 from their bank accounts, even though both suffered from memory loss or dementia.

The Waldo County grand jury this week also indicted Travis E. Tatro, 30, of Camden, charging the former Islesboro Central School basketball coach with 16 counts of gross sexual assault, eight counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and three counts of possession of sexually explicit materials.

Tatro had been arrested in November after being accused of abusing two teenage girls, but an additional victim was named in the indictment. The abuse began in March 2011, according to the indictment, and lasted into August 2013 until the school dismissed him.